DevOps Engineer at Sparkle Nigeria

Sparkle Nigeria is a bank and then more, licensed by the Central Bank of Nigeria (CBN). We are what most people would refer to as a digital bank. We offer financial, lifestyle and business support services to Nigerians across the globe.

We are recruiting to fill the position below:

Job Title: DevOps Engineer

Location: Lagos, Nigeria

About the Role

We are looking for a DevOps Engineer who understands the DevOps culture and practices; and can be a champion for this within the organization.
The DevOps Engineer believes that building great software is more than just delivering working code, that other aspects such as reusability, testability, maintainability, security, and performance are just as important.
The ideal candidate can think long-term incremental evolution, in sync with the industry practices and innovation.

What You’ll be Doing Everyday

Manage internal infrastructure
Promote infrastructure best practices like security, release management, monitoring
Design infrastructure that is resilient, secure and highly available
Facilitate the building and releasing of features by the Technology team
Take part in building a secure and highly available platform
Automate common operations on critical systems in a safe and reliable manner
Build tools and processes that increase the productivity of the Technology team and ensure an efficient release pipeline
Support and collaborate with other Developers building on top of the platform
Share responsibility for strategically scaling Sparkle’s internal systems
Bring vision to the team in the form of new technology recommendations, ideas and approaches

Requirements

You have at least 5 years of software development experience
You have a solid foundation in Linux administration and troubleshooting
You have experience with system scripting languages like Bash, Python or Golang
You have experience with Docker and container orchestration tools like Kubernetes, ECS, Docker Swarm
You are deeply familiar with concepts like DevOps and Continuous Delivery
You have experience with working with tools like Terraforms, Ansible, Chef, Puppet
You have experience with at least one major cloud provider
You have strong understanding of computer science principles
You have experience working in an agile environment (standups, sprint planning, retrospectives, etc)
You have excellent written and verbal communication skills
You have experience with system automation
You have experience with distributed system.